Burner.



S. THOMPSON, JR.

BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1914.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

Application filed May 23, 1914. Serial No. 840,530.

new and useful Improvements in Burners,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in burners, and especially to processes whereby water and kerosene or some like hydrocarbon may be mingled, a wick immersed therein, and the wick then ignited to induce simultaneous combustion of the oil and vaporization of the water, to thereby supply a mingled volume of heated vapor and gases of combustion.

The above process, I have eifected by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a vertical section of a receptacle containing mingled oil and water with a wick immersed therein, before ignition, Fig. 2 is a vertical section of said receptacle showing the said fluids cominingled therein in a state of ebullition while the oil component is under combustion.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding ;parts throughout the several views.

Referring first to Fig. 1, the numeral 1 denotes an open top receptacle containing both water and kerosene oil or other like hydrocarbon, in any relative proportion de sired. The numeral 2 denotes a wick which may be a porous piece of dry wood or any other suitable material capable of becoming impregnated by the oil, and which may be immersed in the mingled fluids.

Fig. 1 shows the condition of the mingled liquids before the ignition of the oil component, in which the lighter constituent floats upon the heavier.

Fig. 2 shows the apparatus after the ignition of the oil-soaked wick or block 2, and in which the block and the surface of the oil is under combustion, creating sufiicient heat to boil the water in'said receptacle, thus placing the same in ebullition which permits the escape of steam, and, thus intimately commingles the oil and water in the receptacle, as shown at 5. In other words, the oil 3 and the water a form a heated emulsion 5, from which steam escapes simultaneously with the production of the heated gases due to the combustion of the water gases and the oil, and furnishing a mingled volume of heated gases. f

Thewick or block 2 is but little, if any, consumed, since the oil and water become exhausted practically at the same time, leaving the block but slightly charred.

A burner thus furnished may be used conveniently for any purpose for which heating is required, and is very inexpensive.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

The process consisting of placing in an open receptacle a layer of water covered by a layer of oil, then partially submerging in the oil a dry piece 'of wood or other porous substance, finally igniting the oil-impregnated wood and the surface of the oil in the receptacle and thereby heating and boiling the water and oil, converting the water to steam, and separating the steam into its gaseous components, igniting and consuming the latter with the oil.

Signed at \Vaterloo, Iowa, of May, 1914.

SALMON THOMPSON, JR.

l/Vitnesses: V i

W. H. BRUNN, I Gno. G. KENNEDY.

this 7th day Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). G. i

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